Danard "DJ" Barnes, 9, asked for an apple to go with his lunch as Thatcher Crocken prepared a tray for him at Elsie Robertson Middle School in Lancaster. Lancaster ISD offered free breakfast and lunch to students after classes were canceled.
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The police officers just wanted Eddie Ray Routh to get out of the truck, but he had other things on his mind. "I don't know if I'm going insane," he confided to a Lancaster police detective in a rambling exchange that was captured by a police body camera a few hours after Chris Kyle and another man were gunned down at an Erath County shooting range.
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Wal-Mart opened 15 more of its Neighborhood Market stores in Texas on Tuesday. Some are its standard 40,000 square-foot grocery store and the rest, mostly in smaller towns, are 12,000 square feet.
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Three people have been arrested in connection with last month's fatal shooting of a 15-year-old Duncanville boy who was battling cancer , a city spokesperson said Thursday. Torrey Goodson Jr., 17, of Lancaster; Kaelan Stephens, 19, of Glenn Heights; and Marcus Rice, 17 have all been charged with capital murder in connection with the death of Ryan Lara.
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Elnora Lacy's bathroom walls were covered in mold for months. Then her bathtub and toilet were taken out, left on the lawn of the Bel-Air Place apartments while she waited for replacements that took more than a month to arrive and still aren't quite ready to be used.
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